Sociology Ch14 - Relationships, Marriage, Family

the tracing of kinship through one parent only.

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the tracing of kinship through one parent only.

unilateral descent.

a group of medical symptoms such as brain swelling and retinal hemorrhage resulting from forcefully shaking or impacting an infant's head.

shaken-baby syndrome.

a form of marriage in which one man is married to more than one woman at one time.

the state of being committed or married to more than one person at a time.

a form of marriage in which one woman is married to more than one man at one time.

a system in which it is customary for the a wife to live with (or near) the her husband's family.

patrilocal residence.

a type of unilateral descent that follows the father's line only.

patrilineal descent.

two parents (traditionally a married husband and wife) and children living in the same household.

the act of being married to only one person at a time.

a system in which it is customary for a husband to live with the his wife's family

matrilocal residence.